I love this book but I don't really feel like I learned anything new. It was definitely a magical collection of cynicism and doomerism told in really beautiful prose. The writing itself was fantastic but I really liked the parts about how horror actually functions in the brain the most and though that was a huge theme i feel like I wanted more about that instead of about how no one should have kids because we are just puppets slave to biodeterminism (we all know that already yk).